Polly Wolly Doodle

Polly Wolly Doodle
General information
Attractions and stage performances	America Sings Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Splash Mountain
Composer and Lyrics	Buddy DeSylva Sidney Clare
Performers	Dan Emmett's Virginia Minstrels
Video

"Polly Wolly Doodle" is a traditional American children's song. It was sung by Dan Emmett's Virginia Minstrels, who premiered at New York's Bowery Amphitheatre in February 1843, and is often credited to Emmett (1815–1904).

It was known to have been performed by the Yale Glee Club in 1878, and was first published in a Harvard student songbook in 1880.

"Polly Wolly Doodle" appears in the manuscript for Laura Ingalls Wilder's novel These Happy Golden Years (1943), exactly as it is used in the published version.

The song was first performed in the former attraction America Sings at the Disneyland Park in the "Going South" section, where Sam Eagle introduced the Swamp Boys as they performed "Polly Wolly Doodle".

The song was also performed in the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction in the line queue, and the line queue of the Splash Mountain attraction.

Lyrics

Polly Wolly Doodle
Polly Wolly Doodle
Polly Wolly Doodle
Polly Wolly Doodle

Oh, I went down south to see my Sal
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
My Sally she am a spunky gal
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well
Fare thee well, my fairy fay
For I'm off to Lousiana
For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Oh, my Sal, she is a maiden fair
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
With curly eyes and laughing hair
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well
Fare thee well, my fairy fay
For I'm off to Lousiana
For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Oh, I like watermelon and I have for years
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
I eat watermelon cause it gets on my ears
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Fare thee well, Fare thee well
Fare thee well, my fairy fay
For I'm off to Lousiana, For to see my Susyanna
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Oh a grasshopper sitting on a rail road track
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
A-pickin' his teeth with a carpet tack
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Behind the barn down on my knees
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
I thought I heard the chicken sneeze
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Oh he sneezed so hard, had a whooping cough
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
He sneezed his head and his tail right off
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

• Song of the South
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

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